The Christmas Hunt Theme

I read The Paper Cowboy by Kristin Levine. The main character is Tommy, a twelve year old growing up in the era after WWII. The main characters are Tommy, Tommy’s mom, Little Skinny, Mr. Mckenzie, Eddy, and Mrs. Glazov.

Grapes of Wrath clearly illustrate the class struggle between workers and the upper class. Steinbeck displays the discrimination between the migrant people and landowners. Migrant workers are handled worse than animals, family’s or “Okies” are starving as food is wasted by the wealthy and the landowners maintain control through violence. “What do you want us to do? We can't take less share of the crop – we're half starved now. The kids are hungry all the time. We got no clothes, torn an' ragged. If all the neighbors weren't the same, we'd be ashamed to go to meeting.” (Pg 33). Farmers are trying to reason with the landowners, their whole community is out of money and are struggling to make a living. Grapes of Wrath show the unfair working situations that migrants face when they arrive in California. Land Owners are the most wealthy and powerful having the ability to pay their workers a poor wage. In the Grapes of Wrath, many Americans lose their homes, jobs and life savings, forcing them to move and leave behind their land in hopes of finding a prosperous place to live. The Great Depression (1929-1939) was the worst, deepest and longest lasting economic collapses in the industrialized western world. The Joad family is planning to move to California, but some of them have doubts and attachments that make them contemplate whether or not it is the right choice. The Joads find their motivation by helping each other through tough situations. Steinbeck shows the determination of the human spirit

Hunting is something that hundred of thousands of people well do each year in America.Everyone in the world experiences fear it might not be the same, but everyone felt fear in their life.An examples of hunting and people feeling fear is in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” because the main character Rainsford feels fear from Zeroff,and they both love hunting.In the story there are multiple differences and similarities between characters Zaroff and Rainsford because he hunts animals, and Zaroff hunts humans and they both love hunting.

Tom Walker was on his way to his home in the big city of Boston, MA. He was headed home from a busy and stressful day of work. On his way, Tom started feeling reluctant about going home. He knew as soon as he had gotten home, his wife would start whining and complaining. Tom was miserable with his wife because all they did was fight and argue. Instead of going straight home, Tom decided to take a little detour. As he was driving, Tom noticed a path he’d never seen before, so he decided to go down the path. Once on the path, the sky suddenly turned dark. While Tom was driving, he came to a point on the path that was blocked by a tree. Tom got out of his car to remove the fallen tree from the path. Attempting to pick up the tree, Tom notices something carved into the bark. Hand-carved into the bark of the tree was the name “John”. Tom read the name multiple times in his head before coming to the conclusion that it was his co-worker. Suddenly there was a rustle in the bushes and out of the darkness Tom heard a voice.

Coming of age is not an "all at once experience." It happens gradually as one slowly becomes mature. The main character, Tom Sawyer, from Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a great example of this. When the reader was first familiarized with Tom, he is shown as a prankster who cares about nothing and tries to skip work, but at the end of the novel Tom has matured, understands emotions, and knows what is right from what is wrong; therefore, Tom Sawyer has come-of-age.

Chaim Potok’s The Chosen is a mysterious novel with very interesting dialogue and detail. Although the narrator’s name is never said or mentioned, Potok still managed to write this thrilling novel that has readers at the edge of their seats. In this novel, a 15 year-old boy, who is a protagonist, has a deep love for baseball shares Jewish culture and habits. Him and all the boys who go to school together play baseball on their spare time and are all on the same baseball team. While being friends and sharing many hobbies, the boys finally meet anonymous narrator’s father. Without the narrator even knowing why, all the boys become distant from him and seem to have formed an alliance against him after they had met his father. They had tried

The movie Smoke Signals, written by Sherman Alexie and Directed by Chris Eyre. Is a great movie about two characters who are very different. They both lose their fathers, live different lives on a reservation, and a very different outlook on life and emotions.

Can life’s events cause us to change our priorities? According to Merriam Webster, priority is defined as something that is more important than other things and that needs to be done or dealt with first. Life’s events definitely can change the priorities of people. People prioritize based on what is important to him/her, and life’s events can cause a person’s view of importance to change. For example, in the story, “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket,” Tom Benecke’s priorities change.

In this passage from his book Johnny Got His Gun, Trumbo shares the developing relationship between a young man and his father as they grow older. As the son transitions from childhood to young adulthood, he begins to explore the world without his father by his side. The change that occurs in the relationship between the young man and his father is an inevitable change that can only be accepted with an open mind and an understanding heart. By using a third person omniscient point of view, significantly small details, and a variation in sentence structure, Trumbo is able to write a sentimental passage about how a father and son’s relationship is so strong that its foundation will never break in spite of changes caused by life and time.

1. The point I find to be the most crucial to the plot in Chapter 1 is the Buchanan’s blatant unhappiness. Tom is obviously unhappy in his married life because, not only is he restless in the sense that he moves frequently, but he also is having an open affair. Daisy is also obviously unhappy because of the way she so readily opened up to Nick, whom she did not know well despite their familial relation, and in the way she interacted with Tom. Even if I had not read this story before, I would have picked up on the fact that this singular point would be a catalyst to the rest of the plot.

The Brennans were a fairly well like family in Mumbilli. That was up until Daniel, the eldest son, crashed his car under the influence of alcohol that killed two of his friends and rendered his cousin Fin a quadriplegic. The Story of Tom Brennan follows the lives of Daniel’s family after the incident and the amount of pain and suffering they went through. The story has a heavy focus on Daniel’s younger brother and year eleven student Tom and his life with all of the torment and pain. “Everything we do in life affects others.” (pg 131) Daniel’s actions on the night of the crashed changed the lives of his family forever.

The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, tells the story of how the standards of society influence two siblings. Tom and Laura Wingfield are two miserable people who no matter how hard they try, cannot seem to fit in. The play takes place in St. Louis, 1937, in which men and women have specific roles and expectations. Men are expected to have jobs, get married and provide for their family. Women are expected to get married, have babies and stay home to raise their children. However, in The Glass Menagerie, Tom and Laura defy these roles due to their own self image and ambition.

Words have power beyond measures. Used often to inclifct emotions such as fear, sadness, sympathy, or joy, they have the power to connect individuals globally. The words from one man in particular have told the horrifying story of his life in the internment camps during World War II. The book Night was a memoir he wrote about the experience. The book solely focused on his time in the camp and the harsh reality he faced. In much detail, he described his life, his feelings, and his struggle of survival throughout the time he was imprisoned there. Elie Wiesel is also a Nobel Laureate. Being of this honor and widely known, he was invited to the white house to deliver a speech. “Perils of Indifference” was the speech he gave. It briefly had

This 9 weeks we have read My Brother Sam is Dead. The author of this Historical Fiction novel is Christopher and James Lincoln Collier. I do recommend this book if you like a good drama within The Revolutionary War time period.

In the story “Christmas Day Hunt” by Borden Deal, there is a very good life lesson on being patient. First, we see the theme when Tom says he's ready to hunt. Tom’s dad said “ I'm afraid not”. Second, Tom decides that he just has to prove that he can hunt to his dad. So he took their dog Calypso Baby to hunt, and to bring a bag back of birds to show his dad. Third, Tom shot the dog when he was hunting. Tom went to shoot the bird and shot his dog. When Tom told his dad that he shot Calypso Baby his dad said”I have to try and save this dogs life now”That's how they theme is to be